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Looks great!
by Beat Wolf on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @04:39

kde 4.1 looks very good indeed. The ONLY things that bothers me at the moment is the taskbar, or better, the rendering of the tasks in the taskbar. I think currently it looks a little bit ugly. i would also like a option that the tasks are listed on two rows not only when the panel is full, but from the beginning. In short, i would like to have a taskbar that can be configured that it more or less looks exactly like in kde 3.5.9.

For the rest, great work!

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Re: Looks great!
by Jonathan Thomas on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @05:17

+1
The way it is now is probably the most sane default, but I'd like the option to change it.

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Bugzilla
by Jonathan Thomas on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @05:28

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160156
^Vote for the wishlist item, if you'd like. That'll be more... impactful than just sitting here and discussing Plasma improvemnts by ourselves on the Dot.

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Re: Looks great!
by Fool on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @07:05

You can already have the items in two rows. Unfortunately you need to set the panel to be really thick ~40px in order to get two rows.

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Re: Looks great!
by sebas on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @08:15

Why would you want smaller buttons? Those provide less space for text, so they're harder to read, and they're also harder to hit with the mouse. KDE3 actually had a problem that those buttons started in the upper row (for bottom panels), so the first set of buttons didn't make good use of Fitt's Law because the buttons didn't touch the screen edges while there was empty space below them ...

They can be made more beautiful though. But since new artwork has yet to be done for Plasma, I wouldn't try to judge it right now ...

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Re: Looks great!
by Sebastian on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @10:02

Agreed! Why does anyone want to remove the new feature?

Though:

If someone wants to implement (many users demand it) it I would recommend not no waste the new code with too many new options, but to implement a second taskbar plasmoid with 3.5 looknfeel....

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Re: Looks great!
by jos poortvliet on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @10:12

agreed :D

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Re: Looks great!
by Vide on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @10:41

Agree. This "bug" is just the typical "I'm used to this and I don't want to change even if the new way is better". Please stop a moment nad think "Why do I want to have a two rows taskbar even if I have only, say, 3 entries?".
The answer is only one: "Because I'm used to it, since Windows first and KDE3 then forced it on me."

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Re: Looks great!
by Jonathan Thomas on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @12:13

Or maybe personal aesthetic preference?
And it's a wishlist item, not a bug.

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Re: Looks great!
by Max on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @13:43

It's worth trying out new things...

Either way, thank you for improving it!!!

KDE looked stale until 4.0 arrived.

Can't wait to see the final version.

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